(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Prof. Selig Brodetsky has accepted the post of member of the London Zionist Executive to which he was elected at the sessions of the General Council in Berlin. Prof. Brodetsky is to succeed Dr. E. M. Eder.
In accepting the post of the London Executive, Prof. Brodetsky said: “I am a firm believer in the Weizmann policy concerning the Agency, basing myself upon the conviction that Palestine will in the long run be built by the efforts of the whole of Jewry.
“But I am not so blinded to realities as to believe that the vast majority of Jews are yet ready to jion in the task,” he continued. “A Jew who gives for Palestine must be in one sense or another a Zionist. If Zionist fund collecting is reduced to a mild form of extortion by personal influence and social intercourse alone, we shall make no progress worth recording.”
Professor Brodetsky has been Reader in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds since 1920. He received his early education at the Jews Free school in London and won his way by scholarships to Cambridge University, where he was in 1908 bracketed Senior Wrangler. He held the Isaac Newtown Research Studentship for 1910-1913.
For many years he has been an active worker in the Zionist movement in England and holds the office of a vice president of the English Zionist Federation. In 1927 he visited America to take part in the Keren Hayesod campaign and to interest various groups in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, of which he is a member of the Board of Governors.
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